“Whether I want to or not that’s what I have to find as the respondent’s requirement.”

Eskin said that some of the other violations regarding electricity and sewer may be valid, but because the city may not have followed due process procedures, he would not consider them at the time.

Robin knows her legal battles with the city are not over, but she told Off the Grid News that she hopes to win and set a precedent for others:

“But what happens in the courtroom is much less important than touching people’s hearts and minds,” she said. “I think that we are continuing to be successful in doing just that and I am so pleased — there is hope! [Friday] morning, as I took my two hour walk, there was a young man, unknown to me, who drove by me, tooted his horn and said, ‘Robin, congratulations on your victory yesterday, keep up the fight and God bless you.’ That is beautiful.”

She said she has no intention of complying with the order to connect to the city water supply:

What is left out of this story is that she HAD been connected and was not paying her bill. She was being sued to pay the water bill when the water was shut off. She was using the water for sewage (toilet). This story is being reported incorrectly EVERYWHERE. Get your facts correct, please.